Here’s the Photo of the Day.
Like it or not? I’d love to know, and it would be good for everyone if you told me why.
[BTW, this image is from our “OGI” file. What’s that? Well…when Scott and I are editing photos after a shoot, combing through thousands to find the select few that see the light of day, we employ a practice that I can’t recommend highly enough. That practice is to put those surprise images–the unexpected happy accidents that have merit, but maybe aren’t relevant to the job we’re editing–into a file of their own with other like-minded (bizarre, unique, etc) images. We call that file “Otherwise Gifted Images”. That’s sort of what I meant by the title of this post. It’s got a double meaning… in one sense, like this image or not, the practice of saving random, unexpected stuff to a common file, or tagging it a certain way, is a good practice. In another sense, I do want to know if you like this photo or not. I’m bias, but I love it. In fact, I took a spin through that whole file last night and fell in love all over again with about 40 photos.. I’ll be sharing more of them over time.]
In my humble opinion, this photo misses the mark. It seems as though the photographer is reaching to be creative. I do not understand the benefit of the effect.
I like it! The orientation is delightfully confusing, and it inspired me to turn it more and dissect it from every angle, though I do like this orientation best because it is the “traditional style portrait” in a completely non-traditional portrait. I’m also in love with the magnification the water gives to the left side of his head, especially since the background of that side is so uncluttered like the other side, it seems so say that the calm, quiet and contemplative side of this man gets compressed into the activity of the outside world.
Thanks for another thought provoking image Chase!
Like – my geekiness had me guessing as to what you had done. Didn’t notice the trees right away.
Nice concept. And I like the OGI theme-ing, will be borrowing that for my photos as well. The photo itself is so-so 🙂
Don’t know, but for some reason I get a bit of Herb Ritts feel from it.